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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/how-the-cdc-abandoned-science The main federal agency guiding America’s pandemic policy is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which sets widely adopted policies on masking, vaccination, distancing, and other mitigation efforts to slow the spread of COVID and ensure the virus is less morbid when it leads to infection. The CDC is, in part, a scientific agency—they…

The Daily Mail reported on letters sent to 600 neurologists in the UK by its Health Protection Agency, asking them to be observant for, and immediately report, cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome [GBS]. The letter is a tacit acknowledgment of the risk of using an untested vaccine with novel ingredients. But it also indicates that the…

 From today’s Stat News: “… Tedros also confirmed that the WHO is working with partners to devise new names for the monkeypox virus, the disease it causes, and the clades of the virus, which currently are named after the parts of Africa where the corresponding viruses are found in nature. Over the weekend a group…

This June 23, 2011 article by Marcia Angell, a former NEJM editor and a Harvard professor of medicine, is a must-read.  Actually, this article is only Part 1, and the second half will come out in two weeks.  Angell reviews 3 books on psychiatry, and asks all the right questions: Why are half of American…

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices posted its new but provisional recommendations for anthrax vaccine on October 5.  Post-exposure use is recommended, although this is not an approved indication per FDA.  Therefore, the ACIP recommends that anthrax vaccine be administered under an Investigational New Drug (IND) application or an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The…

Glenn Greenwald has written a nice piece today in Salon.com on journalists, anonymous sources and the anthrax letters case. He discusses Ivins at the beginning and end of his long article.